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I tweeted about this a little earlier, but it stayed in my mind for a while today, so I thought it deserved a fuller exploration. This is all very sketchy and not fully thought-out, but it’s something I’ve thought about before and don’t have any easy answers for. I spent this morning curled with a…

I just got home from a great talk at the Stonewall National Museum and Archives. The talk was about the queer geography of South Florida from the 1970s to today, using census data and advertisements in archived gay magazines to track movements of lesbian and gay households and businesses through different communities in the area….

I recently read this article about the Allen Ginsberg collection at Stanford, which I saw on Twitter, and was really struck by several things about it. The first was the description of how thinking about his personal collection inspired Ginsberg himself to become more interested in photography: Morgan, [Ginsberg’s personal archivist] who spent 20 years cataloging…

Just in time for Pride month, I spent most of June processing the collections of two (probably) lesbian mathematicians. I really enjoy my job at the Archives of American Mathematics, which collects the papers of mathematicians and mathematics organizations, and over the past year, I have developed a real affection for the world of mathematics. …

I was lucky enough to spend most of the day yesterday at a symposium put on by a group of UT graduate students entitled “Queer Archives, Queer Affect.” The symposium was the culmination of a seminar taught by Ann Cvetkovich exploring the intersections of queer theory, affect theory, and theories of “the archive.” The presenters…